Know Your Math Facts

Do you know your math facts?

• If not, make time every day to practice online or offline, alone or with a friend.
• Strong mastery of math facts helps students to grasp higher level math concepts with ease.
• Strengthening and practicing math facts over the summer months is a good way to prepare for the third, fourth, and fifth grade math programs. Take a look at the following suggestions and resources to guide your practice.
  • First, Watch this film to learn how to learn your math facts! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!
  • Next, know that a math fact foundation is integral to students' math progress. We use the following system to solidify students' fact skill.
    • The Computation Ladder provides a researched order for facts study and mastery.
    • Warm-up with paper/pencil Fact Pages and online practice using That Quiz, Xtra Math, or SumDog.
    • Practice for about 15-minutes a day until you master 100 facts of each operation, and 100 facts of mixed operations in 5 minutes or less.
    • Study and make your own Facts Chart
    • Weekly or bi-weekly tests, progress charts, and incentives encourage progress.
    • Intervene and help for students who struggle using many tools, strategies, and teachers.
    • Flocabulary has memorable fact hip hop videos.
    • Enrichment study by mixing facts and including variables.

Grade-Level Math Fact Review Includes the Following:

• Finding class averages to learn how to practice facts, find the average/mean and learn about each other
• An exploration of the behavior of "Even and Odd" Numbers
• Learning about the general behavior of numbers
• How Numbers Define You
• Sum Investigation
• Close to 100